Hacker News Reader

No buy link, what a wasted announcement. They unveiled... a holding page.

Not that I think it's a good practice, but the fact is a lot of companies announce products with great fanfar before they're actually available. Right now there's a press conference where they're talking about the phones. There's a Twiter tag:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23geeksphone&src=hash

Since Geeksphone is in Madrid, twenty minutes from my home, I hope I can just walk in and buy one as soon as they're for sale.

They should have at least had a a announcement mailing list for me to enter....

While i am a Mozilla Fans, i hate to admit it is just not a well run company.

The parts that matter are quite well run but the marketing side of things could apparently use some polish. For what it's worth this is simply a dev phone announcement and not meant to be a consumer device announcement.

I am quite excited for this not because FxOS will take over android/iOS but because it will give people a trusted organization behind their private data. This has less impact on the North American market but more in other countries that tend to value privacy.

This website is made by geeksphone, which Wikipedia says is a Spanish startup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone

Reply on news.ycombinator.com